ABSTRACT
Political geographers 1 have applied geopolitical analyses to understand the contemporary world order. In particular, their most important contributions to understanding geopolitical change are in their theories about the spatial effects of the rapid changes unfolding in the world economic and political system. Political geographers have disputed the idea of a ‘borderless world’ purported by some international business and international relations scholars. 2 Instead, they have re-centred the new world order debate by emphasising fragmentation over homogeneity through the varying territorial dimensions of global geopolitics and the real variations in political phenomena at all scales.
